Sofia Sanchez

This looks potentially useful for junior scholars.

"The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting"

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Contact your legislators to fund SNAP-Ed! 👉🏽 votervoice.net/EATRIGHT/1/C...

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Do you think there is enough support for these proposed changes to actually come to fruition?

FDA and NIH Announce New Food and Nutrition Research Agenda On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced they’ll collaborate on a new agenda for nutrition research that will prioritize understanding how ultra-processed foods and food additives harm Americans’ health. FDA and NIH are sub-agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Their joint Nutrition Regulatory Science Program will play a key role in Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) plan to focus on preventing chronic disease, according to a news release.

Agency leaders plan to study ultra-processed foods, but their top researcher on the topic left a month ago, and they’re still cutting staff and research funding.

Read more from the Food Policy Tracker. ➡️ buff.ly/6oRD7pp

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🥗 USDA suspends shipments to food banks.

This will cause outright hunger and malnutrition.

Food Policy Tracker The Civil Eats Food Policy Tracker is your daily, go-to source for actions taken by the President, federal agencies, and Congress that directly relate to or have significant implications for the food…

Read the latest on the continued USDA grant contract cuts from the Food Policy Tracker:

USDA Publicizes Canceling a Grant to an Organization That Trains Young Farmers ➡️ buff.ly/oKdNHWk

USDA Continues to Roll Out Deeper Cuts to Farm Grants: A List ➡️ buff.ly/XNrEi79

Very good Bluetorial on hydration and health! ⛲

Check out this new short podcast from our lab that complements Meral Culver's recently published paper in AJP Reg

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🤯 wow! Nice maps!

I'm curious why Alabama has lower participation compared to its neighbors.. any guesses? The AL 3 year food insecurity average has decreased since the previous USDA data as well so this tracks!

I was supposed to have an NIH study section (KEDD) tomorrow, but it was "postponed TBD" today at 3 PM Eastern. Yesterday, individuals who were going to travel for the in-person meeting were told not to travel.

Just confirming firsthand that the madness continues.

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Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration…

The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...

Don't Sleep on Vitamin D: Vitamin D is Associated with Sleep Variability in Apparently Healthy Adults - PubMed <span><b>Background:</b> Vitamin D is associated with sleep quality and duration, but it's unclear whether vitamin D status influences sleep variability. Therefore, we sought to determine whether vita...

Some good news from my team among the craziness...

🚨 Our latest findings were published in Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol ! ☀️💤

Meral Culver found that poor vitamin D status is linked to greater sleep variability in healthy adults.

Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39873709/
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Really unfortunate that the FOA for Research Supplements to Promote Diversity has expired (originally May 2026)! Part of my PhD and postdoc was supported by these supplements, which benefit URM, individuals with disabilities, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Test Validity of a Single-Item Food Insecurity Screening Assessment Among College Students - PubMed Results support for the test validity of a single-item screening question that can be used to detect food insecurity among college students and inform secondary prevention programs aimed at food insec...

A 1 item food insecurity screener for college students derived from the USDA 6 item screener. Interested in seeing future work with this!

"In the last 30 days, did you ever cut the size of your meals or skip meals because there wasn't enough food?"

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39561187/